A Page of Madness/ Special Screening

[Mark Nornes]

Being a new book and not a reprint, this should be like other CJS  
books (like Tom's Tanizaki book); not only will it be on paper, but  
the hardcover will have a jacket?wonders of wonders.

Markus





On Apr 7, 2007, at 7:27 AM, J.sharp wrote:

> This is wonderful news. Does this mean it will appear in hardcopy  
> Mark, or
> as a pdf, like the Noel Burch reprint?
>
> best
> Jasper
>
>
> --------- Original Message --------
> From: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio- 
> state.edu>
> Subject: Re: A Page of Madness/ Special Screening
> Date: 06/04/07 12:31
>
>> I should mention that our Center for Japanese Studies Press will be
> publishing Aaron Gerow's book-length analysis and historiography of  
> Page of
> Madness. He is currently finishing up the ms, so I suppose it will  
> be out in
> the next year or so. It's very, very good.MarkusOn Apr 2, 2007, at  
> 8:45 AM,
> Dean Bowman wrote:I saw the film at the Mental Health film festival  
> (in an
> informal double bill with Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly) at the  
> ICA a few
> years ago. fantastic stuff, even though i missed out on the crazy Jazz
> drumming. Fingers crossed for a DVD. Jasper, i'd be interested to  
> hear more
> about the reasons why Criterion didn't want to put the film  
> out...    Dean
> On 02/04/07, J.sharp &lt;j.sharp at hpo.net&gt; wrote: I wonder if  
> this special
> screening / restoration might finally lead to a DVDrelease. Its always
> amazed me how this was never available (grey market aside) on video/ 
> dvd in
> Japan, and there was clearly good reasons why no onelike Criterion  
> had put
> it out, given the films reputation and historicalimportance.This  
> just played
> in Bristol about a fortnight ago, along with a live accompaniment  
> from some
> crazy jazz drummer and preceded by a screening ofSerene Velocity.  
> I'm not
> sure if my wife has forgiven me for dragging heralong to the event  
> yet, but
> hell, I enjoyed it!Jasper --------- Original Message --------From:
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> Uses of Media &lt;H-FILM at H-NET.MSU.EDU&gt;Subject: A Page of Madness/
> Special Screening Date: 01/04/07 14:48&gt; As a special event to  
> mark the
> Tokyo meeting of FIAF (F?d?rationInternational des Archives du  
> Film), the
> National Film Center and AsahiShinbun (Asahi News) are sponsoring a  
> special
> screening of a newly restored A Page of Madness. The event will  
> take place
> at Asahi Yuraku-cho Hall onSunday 8 April, 2007 at 19:30. (All seats
> reserved.) This new restoration issimilar to the print currently in
> circulation; both derive from a print of the film found in  
> Kinugasa's house
> in 1971, a print that is believed to be ashortened version of the 1926
> original. This new restoration, however,returns the film to the  
> original
> aspect ratio common in the "silent" era, 1:1.33 The screening  
> features piano
> accompaniment by TakahashiYuuji.-----Jonathan M. HallJapanese Film,  
> Media,
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